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View all search resultsAmong provisions revised in the limited amendment of the Electronic Information and Transaction Law are ones on hate speech and defamation, which are commonly used to prosecute critics in the online realm.
The National Police have named Comr. Gen. Agus Andrianto the new head of the Criminal Investigation Department (Bareskrim), a strategic position that puts Agus in charge of leading probes into cases from corruption to cybercrime and online defamation that fall under the notorious cyberlaw.
President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo has instructed the National Police to devise a guideline for the law enforcement body in handling online defamation cases amid rising concerns that the nation’s cyberlaw has been repeatedly abused to silence government critics.
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